Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. The observational method is extremely useful in helping us describe social behavior. The correlational method is
extremely useful in helping us understand what aspects of social behaviors are related. However, only a properly executed experiment allows us to draw conclusions about cause and effect. For this reason, the experimental method is the most commonly used research design in social psychology. Elliot Aronson, et al., Social Psychology
A) Argument; conclusion: Only a properly executed ... cause and effect.
B) Argument; conclusion: The experimental method ... in social psychology.
C) Argument; conclusion: The observational method ... social behavior.
D) Argument; conclusion: The correlational method ... are related.
E) Nonargument.
B
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According to Hume, morality originates from __________
a. reason b. sentiment c. revelation d. intuition
INSTRUCTIONS: The following problems relate to identifying and evaluating inductive and deductive arguments. Select the best answer for each. No supporters of abortion rights are fundamentalist Christians. Therefore, no fundamentalist Christians are supporters of abortion rights
A) Deductive, valid. B) Inductive, strong. C) Inductive, uncogent. D) Inductive, weak. E) Deductive, invalid.
The primary difference between formal and informal fallacies is that
A. formal fallacies involve invalid inferences while informal fallacies involve rhetoric. B. formal fallacies involve explicit use of an invalid argument form while informal fallacies involve problems with the argument's content. C. formal fallacies are identifiable while informal fallacies are not. D. arguments committing formal fallacies can be repaired while those committing informal fallacies are beyond repair.
According to Hegel, the synthesis of Being and Nothingness is:
1. Becoming. 2. Geist. 3. Truth. 4. God.